With mass adoption of the internet, the amount of information at our disposal exponentially increases each day... It has become increasingly difficult to distinguish between signal and noise.
The result: Distortion of information is leading to mistrust.
Today, our confidence in news outlets is diminishing as “fake news” reports are on the rise.
The rise of blockchain offers new possibilities to combat this trend and prove the truthfulness of data.
Liftana aims to offer a solution to the misinformation problem: We enable people to verify, contribute to, and own individual information claims as assets. Our system consists of multiple mesh-verified layers in which humans act as oracles and both provide and validate information.
Our current mission is to bolster our ranks and bring together like-minded, enthusiastic people that share our values and want to fight against censorship and propaganda. However, one of the main issues we want to address is that freedom of information alone is not enough if quality of information provided is poor.
We want to boost the signal, and eliminate the noise.
Team
We are a team of devs and entrepreneurs that have banded together around a common cause - fight "fake news", crappy facebook "factoids", and other garbage that makes people more ignorant, hateful, and closed-minded.
Most of us have known each other and worked together for quite some time in a company that offers weight-loss programs to the elderly and greatly improves their health and lives in general.
Our desire to improve lives left us feeling that we could do more, so we decided to branch out into other socially responsible spheres and try to address issues that we consider are important. It doesn't hurt that we welcome new challenges, especially the ones that push the envelope when it comes to technical solutions.
Hackathon goals:
We have a ready-made frontside with centralized db for our hackathon demo and our plan for hackathon is to decentralize it.
Would you be interested in working with us?
Who knows, there might even be potential for future cooperation as well...
Pitch
With mass adoption of the internet, the amount of information at our disposal exponentially increases each day... It has become increasingly difficult to distinguish between signal and noise.
The result: Distortion of information is leading to mistrust.
Today, our confidence in news outlets is diminishing as “fake news” reports are on the rise.
The rise of blockchain offers new possibilities to combat this trend and prove the truthfulness of data.
Liftana aims to offer a solution to the misinformation problem: We enable people to verify, contribute to, and own individual information claims as assets. Our system consists of multiple mesh-verified layers in which humans act as oracles and both provide and validate information.
Our current mission is to bolster our ranks and bring together like-minded, enthusiastic people that share our values and want to fight against censorship and propaganda. However, one of the main issues we want to address is that freedom of information alone is not enough if quality of information provided is poor.
We want to boost the signal, and eliminate the noise.
Team
We are a team of devs and entrepreneurs that have banded together around a common cause - fight "fake news", crappy facebook "factoids", and other garbage that makes people more ignorant, hateful, and closed-minded.
Most of us have known each other and worked together for quite some time in a company that offers weight-loss programs to the elderly and greatly improves their health and lives in general.
Our desire to improve lives left us feeling that we could do more, so we decided to branch out into other socially responsible spheres and try to address issues that we consider are important. It doesn't hurt that we welcome new challenges, especially the ones that push the envelope when it comes to technical solutions.
Hackathon goals:
We have a ready-made frontside with centralized db for our hackathon demo and our plan for hackathon is to decentralize it.
Would you be interested in working with us?
Who knows, there might even be potential for future cooperation as well...
Skills wanted
We are looking for a BC dev with experience in:
Communication
You can reach Max, our CTO at: Riot / matrix handle @mrwolf:matrix.org https://matrix.to/#/@mrwolf:matrix.org
Status address: 0x04cda50d1ef62f50325f6b652b5ae19262b1739e4bbd1ac8568692898e79276b68265a5ab653e56b507a580225cea75ebd93751bc17e50db5b2db8805fe56acad5